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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by spiffistan on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:13PM (#41880773)
There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.
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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by stonogo on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:51PM (#41881199)
The top voted alternative was "Issue 9" which served as a reference to Plan 9 and happened to be the actual issue number in the Go project on Google Code opened by the guy who's programming language (named "Go!") was already out there.
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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% by spiffistan on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:06PM (#41881352)
You're right, my bad
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